1995 1st edition. Frank Amato Publishing. Portland, Oregon. 4to. Pp80. Colour photographs throughout. Mint in dust-wrapper.
Notes: Jack Samson gives us a view of his adventures around the world, with a advice on techniques and methods included in accounts of his own exciting experiences. Chapters include; best places for billfish on a fly; Mazatlan sailfish; billfish of Panama; new 'lifting flyrods' for sailfish and marlin; large sailfish of Costa Rica; terminal tackel for big fish; Atlantic blue marlin; flies for billfish; fly rod-size black marlin; teasing and hooking billfish; Venezuela's white marlin; striped marlin at Baja's East Cape; reels for billfish; the elusive Pacific blue marlin; catch and release versus records (IGFA rules insist fish are killed).
